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Porn Rewards Users To Get Past Anti-Spam Captchas
Stalke writes "Spammers are now usings a new technique to circumvent the 'captchas,' the distorted text in graphics, that users must input to receive the free email account. The spammers have cracked the system by displaying the 'captchas' on free porn sites in real time. Since there are always a large number of people signing up for free porn, they do the work of decripting the 'captchas' which is then replayed back into the spammers program to create a new email account. Who thought that porn could be a hacking technique!" Sure sounds plausible, though the link here says only "someone told me."
I'm hacking ..... now go away, what I'm doing in here is private.
you're all figments of my deranged imagination
I'm not for spamming... But if I were a spammer... I would pat myself on my back... Pretty nifty... Bastards!
Proof once again that porn (and it's usually associated activities... ahem) will NOT make you go blind!
It has more uses then we can even imagine.
:P
And several uses that we just don't WANT to imagine
For your captcha, use a picture of a really ugly old woman with "click here to see more" written across it, and no one visiting a porn site will help with the decryption.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
A million new Slashdot accounts were added today.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Someone told me once that most technologies that have become successful are those technologies that assist in the dissemination of porn and/or voyeurism. Thinking about it, that's very true. Radio gave way quickly to television, which gave way to cable, and BAM! You get porn. Radio also gave way to the telephone, which gave way to party lines, and BAM! Advances in optics have brought us photography (BAM!), telescopes (BAM!), and eyeglasses (the... the porn is so CLEAR now!), to name a few. Look at the primary achievement of the 90s. The commercialization of the Internet. That's essentially a porn revolution!
So porn is being used to break encryption. Personally, I feel there can be no other way. Porn will lead us to the greatest achievements of our day, and conversely, all roads lead to porn.
It's our past, our present, and our future. Embrace it, or be left behind.
"Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of"-TMBG
I'm sorry, you incorrectly assumed you had two hands free in this exercise to make your point. I believe one of those would be occupied...
They've harnessed the power of horniness, but for evil. If only that unlimited power could be harnessed for good -- it would be like having controlable fusion and all of the heavy water we'd ever need.
Amazingly clever, those evil spamming bastards.
Why are you letting these clowns ruin our country?
"Porn, the foundation of the internet. It will never go away or die. It has more uses then we can even imagine."
Agreed. It is an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.
Hrmm...
More like BLINDs the galaxy together.
Well I don't have an example of the page, but I do happen to have one of the captcha tests they were using... :)
Click here to decode pr0n captcha
-JT
It had to be said...
Imagine a beowulf cluster of porn viewers.
(Which is basically what this is)
"Hey, I'm only seeing ugly people having sex!, guess I have to step up the quality of my work"
The grass is only greener, if you don't take care of your own lawn.
Sorry.
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You are what you think.
I expect that soon all porn viewing jobs will be outsourced to India.
Well, one out of three ain't bad.
Dyolf Knip